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A 25-year-old is suspected of threatening Hanau Mayor Claus Kaminsky online for several days. The police have captured the man and a preliminary investigation has been launched. The public prosecutor’s office in Frankfurt am Main announced this in a message that SPIEGEL has received. The alleged sender of the hate messages had threatened the use of physical violence against the politician through Facebook if he knew him personally.
The suspect is said to have threatened both publicly and through private messages. Among other things, the mayor received the message: “If I see you once, I will kick your face.” In another message it said: “If I understand you, I will personally kick your face in the corner …” When the alleged perpetrator was searched in the Main-Kinzig district near Frankfurt, his smartphone was found, the message read.
In February 2020, a 43-year-old right-wing extremist had killed nine people in Hanau, later found dead in his apartment, as was his 72-year-old mother. In light of the discussion about “xenophobia” in Germany, Mayor Kaminsky emphasized at the time: “Those who were killed in Hanau were not strangers. They were fellow citizens.” Now it is the task of encouraging citizens to defend democracy and the rule of law.
“The days and hours in peacetime are the blackest and darkest our city has ever seen,” Kaminsky said later at a commemorative event. He shouted to those who wanted to divide society: “We are more and we can prevent them from doing so. It is unclear whether the threats against Kaminsky are related to the Hanau attack.
